The Case for Science Fiction, Our August Box, and Ace of Spades Hype Up

With Natalia, Emma, and Renee

Science fiction and fantasy don’t get the respect they deserve and Natalia has a lot of feelings about it. At the end of the segment, we hope you’ll be more inclined to pick up the next science fiction or fantasy book you stumble across. Then Renee unboxes everything in the August Feminist Book Club box. Finally, Emma hypes up a debut YA dark academia thriller, Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. Shoutout to bookstagrammer Maya, @antonique_reads for recommending Ace of Spades to Emma!

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Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Book Recommendations from the author of Ace of Spades, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé:

• Noah Can’t Even and Noah Could Never, Simon James Green
• Heartstopper, Alice Oseman
• Black Flamingo, Dean Atta

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This episode was edited by Claudia Neu and produced by Renee Powers on the ancestral land of the Dakota people.

Original music by @iam.onyxrose

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Renee Powers founded Feminist Book Club in 2018 to provide a space for intersectional feminists to learn, grow, and connect. When not reading or running the biz, you can find her drinking coffee and trying unsuccessfully to teach her retired racing greyhound how to fetch. Favorite genres: feminist thrillers, contemporary literary fiction, short stories, and anything that might be described as "irreverent"